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• sensation functionalities may be integrated into social networking services and applications by embedding and/or otherwise associating haptic data with status updates created in and/or provided via a social networking service, where such haptic data may cause haptic feedback to be provided to a recipient of the status update.
• haptic feedback may include any kind of tactile and/or touch-based feedback, such as various texture sensations, pressure sensations, wetness sensations, adhesion sensations, thermal sensations, vibratory sensations, and/or any other effects that may be sensed by a person using his or her sense of touch.
• FIG. 14 illustrates an example computing system in which one or more aspects of the disclosure may be implemented.
• FIG. 2 illustrates an example method of integrating sensation functionalities into social networking services and/or applications according to one or more illustrative aspects of the disclosure.
• a first user e.g., "User A”
• a status update may include any sort of message, posting, and/or other content item created by a user using and/or to be used with a social networking service. Examples of status updates include Facebook messages and wall posts, Twitter tweets, Google Plus updates, and so on.
• the compose user interface may be provided to the first user.
• the social networking server computer may transmit (e.g., via a TCP/IP data connection) the user interface generated in step 310 to a computing device being used by the first user (e.g., computing device 100), such that the first user's computing device may receive the user interface and display the user interface to the first user.
• the one or more haptic sensations that are to be embedded into, provided with, and/or otherwise associated with the status update may include at least one non-vibratory haptic sensation.
• a "non-vibratory" haptic sensation may include any sensation that includes at least one effect that does not involve producing vibration.
• non-vibratory sensations include texture sensations, pressure sensations, wetness sensations, adhesion sensations, and thermal sensations, produced either alone, in combination with each other, or in combination with one or more vibratory sensations.
• a texture sensation or a protrusion effect produced either alone or in combination (e.g., with each other) could be considered non-vibratory haptic sensations.
• the first user may have defined these groups on and/or otherwise in connection with the social networking service by creating the one or more groups, via one or more user interfaces provided by the social networking service (e.g., provided via the social networking server computer to the first user's computing device), and/or by subsequently editing the one or more groups, via the one or more user interfaces provided by the social networking service, to include the users of the social networking service desired by the first user.
• Any and/or all of this information may be stored in a database by the social networking server computer, and thus the social networking server computer may evaluate the relationship between the first user and the second user based on any and/or all of this stored information.
• the social networking server may embed haptic data into the user interface (e.g., as embedded metadata in the HTML code and/or other computer code that forms all or part of the web page on which the status update may be displayed), where such haptic data may identify the haptic sensation(s) to be provided to the second user and/or may correspond to the first user's selection regarding haptic sensation(s) to be associated with the status update.
• haptic data may identify the haptic sensation(s) to be provided to the second user and/or may correspond to the first user's selection regarding haptic sensation(s) to be associated with the status update.
• the user interface 500 may represent an initial user interface screen displayed in a sequence of user interface screens in composing a status update that includes sensation information (e.g., the sequence of screens illustrated in FIGS. 5-8).
• the user interface 900 may represent an initial user interface screen displayed in a sequence of user interface screens in displaying a status update that includes sensation information (e.g., a sequence of screens as illustrated in FIGS. 9 and 10 and/or in FIGS. 9 and 11).
• sensation information e.g., a sequence of screens as illustrated in FIGS. 9 and 10 and/or in FIGS. 9 and 11.
• the user computing device may display a user interface via which the user of the user computing device can view the status update and/or receive the haptic feedback associated with the status update.
• displaying such a user interface may include displaying any and/or all of the example user interfaces illustrated in FIGS. 9-11, as discussed above, and/or displaying one or more additional and/or alternative user interfaces that include one or more controls and/or other elements that allow the user to view the status update, receive haptic feedback associated with the status update, and/or perform other operations involved in viewing the status update (e.g., as discussed above).
• a computer system as illustrated in FIG. 14 may be incorporated as part of a computing device, which may implement, perform, and/or execute any and/or all of the features, methods, and/or method steps described herein.
• computer system 1400 may represent some of the components of a hand-held device.
• a hand-held device may be any computing device with an input sensory unit, such as a camera and/or a display unit. Examples of a hand-held device include but are not limited to video game consoles, tablets, smart phones, and mobile devices.
• Some embodiments may employ a computer system (such as the computer system 1400) to perform methods in accordance with the disclosure. For example, some or all of the procedures of the described methods may be performed by the computer system 1400 in response to processor 1410 executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions (which might be incorporated into the operating system 1440 and/or other code, such as an application program 1445) contained in the working memory 1435. Such instructions may be read into the working memory 1435 from another computer-readable medium, such as one or more of the storage device(s) 1425. Merely by way of example, execution of the sequences of instructions contained in the working memory 1435 might cause the processor(s) 1410 to perform one or more procedures of the methods described herein, for example a method described with respect to FIGS. 2, 3, 12, and/or 13.
• embodiments were described as processes depicted as flow diagrams or block diagrams. Although each may describe the operations as a sequential process, many of the operations can be performed in parallel or concurrently. In addition, the order of the operations may be rearranged. A process may have additional steps not included in the figure.
• embodiments of the methods may be implemented by hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description languages, or any combination thereof.
• the program code or code segments to perform the associated tasks may be stored in a computer-readable medium such as a storage medium. Processors may perform the associated tasks.

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